gallery.
1. Large internal passage, often a grand room on the upper floor of an Elizabethan or Jacobean house, called long gallery, extending the full length of a façade, and used to display pictures and tapestries, for recreation, and as a connecting corridor. Good examples exist at Hardwick Hall and Haddon Hall, both in Derbys.

2. Large room in which pictures, etc., are hung so that they can be viewed to advantage, often with plain walls and illumination from above, hence a building containing such rooms.

3. Arcade, passage or galerie, in the French sense, top-lit, with shops on either side, also serving as a pedestrian way from street to street.

4. Passage leading to a burial chamber (gallery-grave) within a tumulus, the equivalent of the dromos.

5. Tribune over the aisles in a large church above the nave arcade.

6. Scaffold or extra floor for seating in a church placed at the west end and over the aisles.

7. Mezzanine at the end of a large hall or room for access between rooms or to accommodate musicians, etc.

8. Upper level of seating in a theatre.

9. Passage on top of a Rood-screen, choir-screen, or pulpitum.

10. Any narrow passage intimately connected with the fabric of a large building, especially a church. See dwarf gallery.

11. Any arcaded or colonnaded long passage, not wide or deep, such as an ambulatory in a cloister or a passage leading from one building to another.

gal·ler·y / ˈgalərē/ • n. (pl. -ler·ies) 1. a room or building for the display or sale of works of art. ∎  a collection of pictures.2. a balcony, esp. a platform or upper floor, projecting from the back or sidewall inside a church or hall, providing space for an audience or musicians. ∎  (the gallery) the highest of such balconies in a theater, containing the cheapest seats. ∎  a group of spectators, esp. those at a golf tournament.3. a long room or passage, typically one that is partly open at the side to form a portico or colonnade. ∎  a horizontal underground passage, esp. in a mine.PHRASES: play to the gallery act in an exaggerated or theatrical manner, esp. to appeal to popular taste.DERIVATIVES: gal·ler·ied adj.

Gallery

the audience in the gallery, 1649, used in relation to a theatre or the political arena, e.g., ‘playing to the gallery’. See also audience.

gallery †covered walk, colonnade XV; long balcony; apartment for the exhibition of works of art XVI. — (O)F. galerie — It. galleria gallery, †church porch — medL. galeria, perh. alt. of galilæa GALILEE.